Brendan Benson Quotes
There's a combination of things to survive the road trip. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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I remember many a time, going into someplace like Wrigley Field - where you could cut the humidity with a knife - and playing a doubleheader. I loved to play the game. It didn't matter if it was a doubleheader, or a single game, or a day game after a night game. I wanted to play.
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My customers are successful workingwomen.
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In fact, the Senkaku Islands are... inherent territory of Japan that is recognized in our history and also by international law.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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I always have to be writing.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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There's a lot of things I want to do. I want to learn Italian. I want to learn to play tennis better. I want to motivate the world, basically.
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I've decided to tell my kids things like: 'I love the way each of you tilted back your heads when you laughed.' I will give them specific stuff they can grasp.
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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Sometimes you have success and not so much success versus certain people.
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My folks have played everything from rock, disco, pop, funk, and blues. My dad has always brought and played different genres like jazz, classical, and Latin. With all this in my pocket, I feel I have a taste of everything for my influences.
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For research, I like to go to the location of the places in the novels. The first thing that I do is involve my senses: I notice the smells; I open the trash cans and look at what people have thrown away.
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I'm just focused on exploring new opportunities.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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McCovey swings and misses, and it's fouled back.
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I wish my real life could be as simple and scripted as it is on television.
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At times our children may not be in possession of a good spirit; but if the parent continues to possess the good Spirit, the children will have the bad spirit but a short time.
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There's a combination of things to survive the road trip. Humor would be key. If everyone has relatively the same sense of humor, then that helps. And things in common, like food, eating.
